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Changes With Exposure

Studio Arts Seniors celebrate the culmination of their creative work through the 2024 Student Exhibition: Changes With Exposure.

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About Studio Arts

The Department of Studio Arts encourages rich experiences in visual arts and creative expression. We believe that curiosity and hands-on engagement in the making of art prepares all students with skills in problem solving, ideation, and the articulation of abstract concepts that enrich and contribute to the dialogue in visual art and other fields.

Experiences
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Academics
See, think, and make through explorations in diverse media with a curriculum grounded in traditional and contemporary approaches.
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Research
Follow your creative pursuits across and beyond the university with the guidance of committed faculty artists and educators.
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Facilities
Produce and share your work and engage with others in the creative community here at Pitt and beyond.

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"Fever Field" - a large format collage of photographs of wildflowers by Melissa Catanese

Melissa Catanese's "Fever field" included in exhibition at Phoenix Museum of Art.

Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape aims to raise renewed ecological awareness through visual representations of the environment, as seen through the photographic lens.

Pittsburgh's Avant-Garde: 60 Years Inside The Underground Art Scene

Scott Turri interviews Sheila Ali in BOMB Magazine

A conversation with Sheila Ali about her work documenting the history of PIttsburgh's art scene in her book Pittsburgh's Avant-Garde: 60 Years Inside The Underground Art Scene.

Mutations, by Melissa Catanese

Mutations, an exhibition by Melissa Catanese, opens Jan 29.

Studio Arts is pleased to announce the exhibition, Mutations by Studio Arts professor, Melissa Catanese opens Wednesday, January 29, 2025 in the Paul Mesaros Gallery at the Canady Creative Arts Center at West Virginia University

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